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| Saturday, January 27th, 2007 | | 1:11 pm |
| | Friday, November 17th, 2006 | | 2:19 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | | 6:56 pm |
Thank you for your good thoughts
They seemed to have helped. I have been offered a position as a staff writer for a new trade journal for a segment of the renewable energy industry. It will pay at least 10 percent more than my previous position, and I am a happy camper. So everyone, join me in the traditional Snoopy Dance. | | Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | | 5:39 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 | | 10:31 am |
| | 9:32 am |
Six word stories
Well, it's inevitable that this will be come a livejournal meme, so I will get the ball rolling... Cannibal cruise. No lifeboats. Supper everyone! | | Monday, September 11th, 2006 | | 4:00 pm |
Fear is a weakling bastard, yet powerful
Plague was running rampant through the town when I saw Death approach at sunrise. Death told me he was only going to harvest ten souls that day. But when sunset came two-score were dead. I asked Death if he had lied. "I took but 10 souls today. Fear slew all the rest." Bravo to Wired for publishing this. I look forward to the administration's "Global War on Falling." My country has been mismanaged through fear for the last five years. We need another Roosevelt to stand up and repeat, over and over and over again, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Fear makes us stupid. It makes us give evil people whatever they want, as long as they tell us they will protect us. The longer we are afraid, the more we become dependent on those who would manipulate us. All it takes is for one person, one man, one woman, one child to stand up and say, "I am not afraid." Then take someone elses hand and encourage them and love them and get them to repeat with them, "I am not afraid." Repeat that with the next person and the next and the next. "I am not afraid." "I am not afraid." "WE
ARE
NOT
AFRAID!" | | Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 | | 4:55 pm |
Well smack my gob
What have they been putting in the Presbyterians' water these days??? Wonder if I could get 10 copies for every place in town that distributes bible tracts??? Current Mood:  surprised | | Friday, August 25th, 2006 | | 3:06 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 | | 3:35 pm |
Wherein I surrender to the movie quote meme
See if you can identify them: 1. I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at our Ma. She shoulda strangled you, or at least drowned ya when you were born. 2. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen. **** LOLLEEROBERTS KNEW THIS ONE **** WOO HOO 3. My friend, you have two ways to leave this establishment; immediately or dead. 4. Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! **** FAXPALADIN KNEW THIS ONE **** WOO HOO 5. Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? | | Friday, August 11th, 2006 | | 2:54 pm |
A serious article on the meaning of the London liquid bombers.For the good of my country, the U dot S dot of freaking A dot, I hope that people will repeat points 1 and 4 loud and often. First, what stopped this plot was law enforcement...
Fourth, there was no involvement by any American-based “cells,” ... there is virtually no plausible American jihad organization at work, and never has been. | | Monday, July 10th, 2006 | | 10:22 am |
BB: Digital Voice Recorders
I am returning to writing, or more accurately journalism, to try and make a living while enjoying it again. I record all my interviews so I can misquote my sources accurately. I am looking for a small digital voice recorder that will let me download interviews into my Mac. I have looked at the Olympus models but they all seem to record only wma files, which I would like to avoid. I am considering getting an iTalk for my iPod and use an external mike as an alternative. Does anyone have any experience with that sort of setup? Or know of a handheld digital recorder that can record mp3 (or aac or ogg or aiff even, any format that won't make my current software spit up?) files and download them to a mac? X-posted to Callahanians | | Thursday, July 6th, 2006 | | 9:53 am |
Tomorrow is my birthday
I will be 46 years old on the seventh day of the seventh month. Old enough to know better as my dad used to say. I have decided to use the day for a little symbolism. I will be walking away from gainful employment and trying to plunge ahead doing something else. Don't entirely know what yet. I am collecting opportunities for freelance writing and photography gigs, and I have hopes that may be fruitful. And if worse comes to worse, working retail never killed anyone, at least in the short term. I have been looking for a local news job(for rural value of local, a radius about 300 miles) for nearly 4 years but the shrub economy has been brutal on newspapers so even crappy little midwest weeklies are getting resumes from both coasts. When I started a decade ago, a lot of papers were happy to find someone with a nodding acquaintance with a dictionary. Now I can't even get a job interview. I have fans out there. Some even switched their newspaper subscriptions when I moved to a new paper. The job I have now is almost pure stress. And in February I got a new boss who is putting in place a new plan. I know the plan can work, but only with the right person at the helm. I know I am not that person. My personality and skill set are best suited for dealing with individuals and small groups. The new plan calls for a mass mobilization. It also calls for me to drop nearly all of the work I have been doing counseling people in crisis. I just have this deep inner voice that says I do not want to be in the middle of all this. I think the groups I work with will adapt to the changes better if the don't see me there purposely ignoring what they feel should be my primary job. So it is time to cut the cord. It is going to be a nerve wracking next few months, but somehow I think I am going to the most relaxing summer in years. Wish me luck. | | Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | | 9:13 pm |
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) siliconshamanMEME TIME!!!! If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your LJ and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you Knock yourselves out folks.. best ones get cookies! [well, virtual cookies but at least they're non-fattening since they have imaginary calories] | | Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 | | 3:52 pm |
Tweet tweet
I made up a list of things I wanted back in 2000 or so. I finished that list this year when I bought myself a Canon 30D digital SLR (that's a camera if you aren't up on the jargon). It is a fairly complicated piece of equipment so I decided I needed a project to give me the experience I need to use it properly. So with the idea that best way to take a few good pictures is to take a whole lot of bad ones, I have started a photographic bird year project. That is, I will try to take pictures of as many different birds as possible in the period of one year. I started on May 21 and am up to 25. Because (at least for the moment) I'm limiting myself to northeast North Dakota, my goal is a reasonably modest 100 species. If you would like to see my purty birdy pitchers and follow my progress, look here. Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: Turn, Turn, Turn -- The Byrds | | Friday, May 12th, 2006 | | 9:58 pm |
A local Radio Shack is closing and I picked up a few things on clearance. One was a electronic thermometer. The instructions said "Do not expose to extremes of temperature." Umm, dude? It's a freaking thermometer! Isn't it its freaking JOB to be exposed to extremes of temperature? | | Thursday, April 27th, 2006 | | 8:56 pm |
Semper fi
My nephew, the Marine who was wounded in Afghanistan, received his DD-214 today. So while he will still be a Marine forever, he has officially rejoined the civilian world. Long discussions remain with the VA about the definition of "disabled" is and how one attaches a percentage to that adjective, but the main point is they can't take him back anymore. So he can start talking about the things he has been afraid to talk about now. He wants me to write his story but wouldn't talk to me before he had that piece of paper. The Marines did my nephew a world of good. But he is in pain and will be possibly for the rest of his life. But the first rule of war is that young men and women will suffer. As much as we would like that to change it never will. We can only demand that our leaders not send our sons, daughters, nieces and nephews to fight and die for their own selfish ends. | | Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 | | 3:09 pm |
| | Friday, March 10th, 2006 | | 9:52 am |
Pushing back
One of the right wing's most long established propaganda tools is the myth of government waste and inefficiency. In the Internet age this has meant all those hoary urban legends of welfare queens and more Ag Dept. employees than farmers and $400 toilet seats show up with irritating regularity in my inbox. I enjoy a good laugh as well as anyone. But it's only fun until the country starts electing people who use this crap as a base for serious policy decisions. So I have started pushing back ever since I got a stupid email saying the ACLU wouldn't let my nephew the Marine pray. In this effort, Snopes.com is your friend. Here is my latest response. I received this email this morning... >Consider These 3 Thoughts: > >(1) Zero Gravity: >When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered >that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this >problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen >that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any surface including >glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C. The >Russians used a pencil. Your taxes are due again - - enjoy paying them. > >(2) Our Constitution: >They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we >just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, and >it's worked for over 200 years. And, we're not using it anymore. > >(3) Ten Commandments: >The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse is >that you cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit >Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges >and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. > After 30 seconds at snopes.com I was able to respond... Well, Number 1 is just wrong... http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.aspAnd as for number 3, lawyer, judge and politician bashing is fun until we elect a president and congress that believes all that crap is true. Then we get "stellar" "legal" opinions such as "If the president does it, then by definition it's not illegal." Anyone who disagrees and points to the Constitution is well, just another of those wacked-out lawyers, judges or politicians. As to my own opinion, I will defer and offer a quote... Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people. Paul Wellstone As for number 2, given the goober who sent us to Iraq in the first place, the people of Iraq would be better off with the instruction manual for a Kitchaid Dishwasher than anything Bozo had a hand in. | | Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 | | 8:34 pm |
Thought for the day
Everybody has a bonnie, yet none they say have I
yet all the girls they smile at me while coming through the rye. Current Mood:  lonelyCurrent Music: Charlie Brown |
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